Melbourne Makerspace had a request for the Prusa RS2 design face shields. We had a 2 day window to get them ready, so they could hitch a ride with someone headed to the facility. Great teamwork from everyone involved. And managed to do it with no more than 2 people together at at time, due …
My employer asked if I was able to assist him in fixing a transmission housing. A small piece had broken off where a bolt fastens the transmission housing to the engine. The broken piece was long gone, so we were left with no other choice but to fabricate a new one. Step 1 : Sculpt Broken …
A local artist, David Burton, asked if I could add some electronics to his art so that it will play a song when a person stands in front of it. So of course I immediately set to work on making a shopping list of parts and built a prototype. Luckily there is already a single …
Another great project built by one of our members, Steve Newell: I have a commercial sewing machine and I make big stuff, which means I go through a lot of thread. I couldn’t find a wall storage unit that would accommodate the bigger spools – all of them seemed geared to the smaller spools with …
A project by Melbourne Makerspace member, John Gay: My first computer was a TRaSh-80 (TRS-80) from Radio Shack for my 14th Birthday. As the name implies, it was an 8 bit computer based on the Z-80 microprocessor. It had a whopping 4K (4 thousand bytes) RAM and ran at somewhere around 1Mhz (1 million cycles per …
One of our members used the woodshop tools here at the Melbourne Makerspace to create a custom, wooden urn for his friend’s dearly departed dog, Bella. This shows a good use of the wood lathe and drill press in our wood shop. If you want to take a tour of our wood shop and the …
Last Wednesday for Arts n Crafts night we had a guest teacher for making our own Christmas ornaments. There were clear ball style ornaments that we decorated by putting chunks of crayons inside. Then we used hair dryers and heat guns to melt the crayons and then move the ball around to “paint” the inside …
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An undisclosed Librarian, has approached me to see if our Makerspace can help them implement something similar to our 48 Projects for the undisclosed location. Joe and I made a field trip to survey their facility and resources; we would like to meet this Saturday morning at 10:00 to lay out the project. There is …
Brainstorming Session for Library Mini ’48 Projects’ Read More »
Hello makers! It’s been a few months in our new space, and it seems we’ve finally settled in. Our classroom area has been set up, offering more space to teach, to learn, and to make! A projector, tables for work, and even whiteboards have been installed. Pictured are Josh, Josh, and Dean. At the entrance …
